"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real."

-- George Bernard Shaw

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“The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world.”

Source : Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The Progress of a Biographer”
“I'm claustrophobic. I can't go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed space. I freak out. That's my phobia. It gets me out of stuff. Someone asks me to do something and I tell them I can't because I'm claustrophobic.”
“I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?"”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“Whats the difference between male and female passion? If love is a drug, what are its side effects? Rhye makes chill-out music, but it never quite lets your mind switch off.”
“Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.”

Source : "American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear". Book by Khaled A. Beydoun, April 3, 2018.
“When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are dying. The next show, I try to repeat it, I can't do it. Because with the first audience that was our moment. It can't happen the same way again. We were all there: a certain type of people were at that show and we all got it.”
“Faldo has lost a lot of respect from players because of what he said.”

Source : "No Limits". Book by Ian Poulter, October 2014.
“Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water?”

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